2020 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking first introduced the world university rankings by academic subjects in 2009, which was officially renamed the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) in 2017. GRAS evaluates world universities across 57 subjects in the fields of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. GRAS is based on nine objective indicators grouped into five categories: World-Class Faculty, World-Class Research Output, High-Quality Research, Research Impact, and International Collaboration. Each year, GRAS presents around 20,000 subject units from approximately 2,000 universities across some 100 countries and regions.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Science and Technology Beijing China	269.4	96.2	64.0	46.1	100.0
2	Central South University Central South University China	237.7	100.0	65.6	37.5	64.5
3	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	230.5	89.2	69.5	40.7	63.7
4	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang) China	230.0	81.7	64.8	50.5	73.3
5	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	229.1	76.5	71.2	56.6	70.1
6	University of Tennessee - Knoxville University of Tennessee - Knoxville United States	226.6	49.4	100.0	80.1	61.2
7	Tohoku University Tohoku University Japan	217.6	67.3	64.4	65.4	72.9
8	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	215.6	47.5	88.8	79.9	63.3
9	Monash University Monash University Australia	214.6	44.8	93.5	87.9	58.6
10	Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea	213.3	57.5	74.8	62.2	68.5
11	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	211.7	84.3	69.9	42.6	49.0
12	Chongqing University Chongqing University China	205.5	67.0	75.2	42.6	54.7
13	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	202.3	46.0	79.7	74.3	61.7
14	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	200.2	40.9	85.7	77.1	58.2
15	University of Leoben University of Leoben Austria	198.3	49.0	77.5	80.3	55.7
16	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	195.4	37.3	90.5	79.8	51.6
17	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	195.0	63.8	66.4	49.4	54.9
18	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes France	193.6	49.9	71.4	86.0	55.1
19	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	192.7	40.1	81.6	83.3	54.3
20	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	191.9	60.4	68.2	49.0	53.5
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	191.3	34.8	91.8	77.1	49.2
22	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany	191.0	44.1	79.7	84.0	50.3
23	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	189.7	32.1	92.1	78.9	49.7
24	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	189.3	38.6	82.3	87.7	50.8
25	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	188.9	41.8	77.2	79.8	53.9
26	Shanghai University Shanghai University China	187.3	56.7	64.4	57.5	54.7
27	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	186.8	56.4	75.6	42.3	46.2
28	Beihang University Beihang University China	186.1	60.9	67.8	45.5	48.3
29	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	185.2	39.6	81.6	77.5	48.5
30	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	184.9	40.6	93.2	67.4	37.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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